Kelly, Devon
Kellyis a small village in westDevon,England.
The village church is largelyPerpendicularof the 15th century but thechancelis earlier than the rest of the building, perhaps 14th century, and the south chancelaislehas windows of 1710 though in the Perpendicular style.
Kelly Houseis mid-18th century but its predecessor, theTudorhouse, was on a different site nearby and is still in existence.[1]
Name
[edit]Kelly the name derives from the Cornish for 'grove'. This village was named Chelli inOld English(1166 A.D.), and Chenleie in the Anglo-Norman of the 1086Domesday Book.Both these forms show mutation of the initial letter, again a feature of Celtic languages, where the initial letter 'mutates' when other words are place in front of it - in this case it would probably have originally been 'An Chelli' for 'the grove', where 'chelli' is the mutated form of 'Kelli', 'grove' in Old Cornish.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^Pevsner, N. (1952)South Devon.Penguin Books; pp. 186-87
External links
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